urllib.urlopen patch causes reading beyond last byte of https responses to take unreasonably long

[James Aylett]

Importing M2Crypto patches `urllib.urlopen` to "better" support https (possibly a hangover from when urllib didn't support it at all?). The version in natty does not correctly process the end of the response, and takes approximately 300 seconds to return.

Example:

import urllib
d = urllib.urlopen("https://www.google.com/").read() # returns almost at once
from M2Crypto import SSL
d = urllib.urlopen("https://www.google.com/").read() # returns about 300 seconds later

These should be equivalent.

user@ubuntu:~/projects/world$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
user@ubuntu:~/projects/world$ apt-cache policy python-m2crypto
python-m2crypto:
  Installed: 0.20.1-1ubuntu5
  Candidate: 0.20.1-1ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 0.20.1-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Ben Howard (darkmuggle-deactivatedaccount)]

Marking as confirmed. Thank you for the example code.

[Ben Howard (darkmuggle-deactivatedaccount)]

Confirmed for Oneiric as well.